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Agri Energy Limited

Agri Energy Limited (ASX:AAE), formerly Australian Ethanol Limited, is an ASX listed company specialising in the development of facilities for the production of alternative fuels for the motor vehicle industry. Countries such as Brazil, the USA and Sweden have found blending fuel with ethanol is a key strategy to lowering the ‘at the bowser’ cost of fuel, enhancing energy security and improving fuel’s environmental performance. The Australian regulatory environment has supported alternative fuels through the provision of capital grants, fuel excise rebates and sales targets. Similar frameworks exists in both the USA and Europe.


Biodiesel Producers

Biodiesel Producers Limited (“BPL”) is an unlisted public company established to manufacture biodiesel fuel from tallow and waste cooking oil. BPL is in the process of constructing a 60ML biodiesel production facility near Wodonga, Victoria. This is the first of three plants proposed by BPL. Biodiesel offers significant environmental and health benefits when compared to fossil fuel based diesel. It is derived from a renewable, naturally occurring resource which in the case of BPL is also a waste stream. It results in fewer CO2 and other greenhouse gas emissions as well as lower emissions of other harmful gasses. Biodiesel which meets the domestic standard is subject to a favourable regulatory environment in Australia with the establishment of the Clean Fuels Act to encourage the use of both biodiesel and ethanol.


BioPower Systems Pty Ltd

BioPower Systems Pty Ltd ("BPS") is a renewable energy systems company based in Sydney. BPS will use investment capital to design, build and install full-scale prototypes of the company's bioWAVE wave power and bioSTREAM tidal power systems for generating renewable energy. The project will build prototypes at two sites in Tasmania to test the wave and tidal energy technologies.

 

DoloMatrix

DoloMatrix International Limited (ASX:DMX) is a technology-based business, specialising in treatment of hazardous wastes and waste materials that present complex problems. Dolomatrix's system offers an an environmentally sound and economically viable solution for the treatment of site remediation soils, dredging sediments and industrial process residues.

 

The Environmental Group Limited

The Environmental Group Limited (ASX:EGL) is an ASX listed diversified Australian environmental solutions company operating in air and odour pollution control, water and waste water treatment, low pressure sewer systems and other environmental products and services. EGL provides services to a wide range of industrial, mining and municipal entities.

 

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HydroChile Pty Limited

Chile has a shortage of available fossil fuel sources and a growing energy demand driven by its recent economic growth. HydroChile is an Australia company using the know-how and expertise of some of Australia's leading hydroelectricity experts to develop small scale run-of-river hydro projects in Chile.

 

PRO-PAC Packaging

Pro-Pac Packaging Limited (ASX:PPG) is an ASX listed leading manufacturer of biodegradable protective void fill packaging and a distributor of general industrial packaging products and warehouse safety consumables. Pro-Pac is headquartered in Sydney and has branches in Brisbane and Melbourne. Pro-Pac’s key void fill products are made from Australian grown wheat and starch, naturally renewable resources and are 100% biodegradable, reducing landfill. Pro-Pac offers to its customers a recycling service whereby general industrial packaging material once utilised can be returned and recycled.

 

Soilwise

Soilwise Pty Limited (“Soilwise”) has established an aerobic composting facility at Leeton, in the Murrumbidgee Irrigation Area of New South Wales. Its business model is to take waste biomass from local agricultural producers and other green waste sources that would otherwise go into landfill and produce a humus-rich compost to be sold back to the agricultural producers. The aerobic composting process uses microbial energy contained in the biomass and avoids the production of methane (a greenhouse gas) which results from the biomass decomposing in landfills. Compost is used by growers as an alternative to chemical fertilizers and provides other significant environmental benefits.


Viridis Clean Energy Group

Viridis Clean Energy Group (ASX:VIR) specialises in the generation, storage, transportation and supply of energy with a focus on electricity generation. Viridis uses water or inherently low emission sources, including wind, hydro, biomass, geothermal, solar, waste fuel, coal seam methane and natural gas to produce renewable energy.

 

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Wind Corporation Australia

Wind Corporation Australia Limited (“WCA”) is an energy development company with a portfolio of both existing and planned wind energy projects and a small number of investments in clean energy oriented companies within Australia such as Babcock & Brown Wind Partners (ASX: BBW). WCA was established in 2000 by founding investor CVC REEF Limited to develop and commission the Hampton Wind Park. Hampton is a 1.32 MW wind farm located near Lithgow in NSW which supplies renewable electricity to the main electricity grid and is wholly owned by WCA.


Hastings Diversified Utilities Fund

Hastings Diversified Utilities Fund (ASX:HDF) aims to build a portfolio of utility infrastructure assets that provide an appropriate balance of regular cash yield and prospects for long-term capital growth. HDF focuses on hydro and wind power generation, gas transmission and distribution of assets, water and other essential utilities and electricity generation.

 

Jackgreen Limited

Jackgreen (ASX:JGL) focus is on offering simple and cost effective ways for the average Australian household to make a difference to the environment. They are the only licensed electricity retailer in Australia dedicated to reducing carbon emissions through renewable energy. Every product they sell is accredited by GreenPower, and every Jackgreen customer makes a contribution by reducing carbon emissions and combating the impact of climate change.

 

Ceramic Fuel Cells Limited

CFCL (ASX:CFU) is a world leader in developing solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) technology to provide reliable, energy efficient, high quality, and low-emission electricity from widely available natural gas and renewable fuels. CFCL is developing SOFC products for small-scale on-site micro combined heat and power (m-CHP) and distributed generation units that co-generate electricity and heat for domestic use.